Fabian Zhilla is a Lecturer of Law and Ethics at the Canadian Institute of Technology in Tirana, Albania and a Lead Researcher of the “Study of Organised Crime” Research Unit of the Open Society Foundation in Albania. He received his Ph.D. in Law from King’s College London in 2012 and was previously a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University and George Washington University. His current research is on the interplay between judicial corruption and organised crime in the Western Balkans.
As a Fulbright Fellow at CES, Dr. Zhilla will focus on the impact of the European Union (EU) policies in strengthening the rule of law and minimizing judicial corruption in Albania. The research aims to understand why powerful drivers such as EU policies have faced resistance from corrupt judges and policy-makers despite considerable EU political investment on judicial reforms in the region.
This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.
Discipline:
Law and Ethics
Areas of Expertise:
Anti-corruption
Organized crime
Terrorism
Cyber crime
Ethics
Research Topic:
Patterns of Judicial Corruption in the Western Balkans with case study Albania
